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Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:32:37 -0500
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From:	"Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
Subject:	Re: autoconf-2.50-iscated & automake-1.5-ified packages and SFN
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At 08:31 AM 3/12/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
 >
 >> At 08:07 AM 3/11/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >> <Snipped>
 >>  >The idea is that config.site distributed with Bash should add
 >whatever
 >>  >is missing in it now.  Mark did that for the versions released in 

 >the
 >>  >past.
 >>
 >> So, for DJGPP we're saying that the bash version is the one that
 >should
 >> be the most up-to-date?
 >
 >Either that, or the ported package should come with its own
 >config.site, and force the configure script to source that file.

Doesn't that force too many DJGPP-specific changes on porters?

 >> Where exactly on SimTel are the config.* files located, if you
 >> know?  Or did you mean download those tools and grab the config.*
 >files
 >> from inside the distributions?
 >
 >The latter.

Thanks.

 >> No, I meant the config.* files.  Where in the tree would they be
 >stored
 >> on a Linux system, for instance?
 >
 >config.site is in $(prefix)/share (and we follow that).  I don't know 

 >whether there are other configuration-specific files, but another
 >candidate is somewhere under $(prefix)/etc.

We are talking about config.guess and friends, right?  I didn't think 
any of those lived in $(prefix)/etc.
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

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